Frederick Douglass: “I feel it my duty to cry aloud and spare not.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.